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I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it,
then I lay down on my father's grave.

A family is a mystery.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

The older I get, the more I feel

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

He fell in love with her because I
didn't suit him anymore -
nor him, me, though I could not see it, but he
saw it for me.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back.

Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying.

it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a ... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

As if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

Sometimes I can almost see around our heads,
like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them.

There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.

If I could
choose, a place to die,
it would never have been in your arms, old darling

Let's part
equals, as we were in every bed, pure
equals of the earth

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

...the liquor like fire in his hand

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.